RAMAVTAR PRASAD GUPTA Vs. JHARKHAND STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD both sides.

(2.) THIS is a case in which the petitioner, who retired on 31 -1 -2000 as an employee of erstwhile Bihar State Electricity Board, has claimed retiral dues. Admittedly, on that date neither the State of Jharkhand nor the Jharkhand State Electricity Board was in existence.

(3.) SECTION 53 of the Bihar Re -organization Act reads with schedule 8 of the said Act require consideration for answering this question. Section 53 of the Act reads as follows :